Selling Out Edit Meaning

1.

To compromise one's values and/or aristic vision in order to gain fame and/or monetary profit. Commonplace in today's musical society. It is rare to find a successful musical artist who has not "sold out", however, this is not to say that they do not exist.

Good Charlotte never sold out. Selling out requires having some artistic vision in the first place.

2.

Success/fame or any other kind of personal gain at the cost of credibility; and ANYBODY could be a sellout not just a musician/band. There's things that you get naturally and there's things that require selling out to have. And what sucks more is that you can't go back after you did it.

I don't want to name names so I can't give an example of selling out.

See underground, influential, trendsetter

3.

A band has “sold out” when their fans no longer get feel like part of an elite clique. This generally happens when a band attracts interest from a major label, who provides them with a higher recording budget, which results in just enough polish to make the band acceptable to a slightly wider audience; unfortunately, the better production generally reveals the band’s basic lack of musical talent, which hipsters could previously not see because it was hidden behind a blurry cloud of “lo-fi.”. What hipsters once assumed were “fractured pop songs” are revealed to simply be “bad pop songs,” and the hipsters aren’t smart enough to figure out why their favorite band suddenly seems to suck way more than before, so they blame it on “commercial production” and this mysterious and ephemeral force of “selling out.”

Dr. David Thorpe

Hipster: Selling out to the corporate machine! Ahhhhhhhhh.

See indie, lo-fi, hipster, music, corporate

4.

To trade one's integrity in exchange for money, popularity or success.

the term is mostly associated with music, in which a singer(s) or band will change their style in order to gain mainstream success or to get signed to a major label.

green day has been accused of selling out.

See sell out, mtv, mainstream, integrity, band, singer

5.

unfortunately MetallicA, once the gods of metal decided to sell out. that pisses me off. the Metalligod has failed. WHY!!!!!st. anger suck.

kill 'em all kicks ass

master of puppets kicks ass

ride the lightning kick ass

...and justice for all kicks ass

the black album.......

st. anger sucks